Language Arts Grade Four

Unit Sixteen, Lesson Three: Base Words

  1. dress
  2. lesson
  3. freshness
  4. fitness
  5. fearless
  6. glass
  7. mission
  8. pass
  9. movies
  10. law
  1. crust
  2. plate
  3. recycle
  4. aquatic
  5. dunes
  6. hungry
  7. stove
  8. pipe
  9. wells
  10. springs
Base Words

Four words from this spelling list are words to which either a prefix or suffix have been added: 


      PREFIX	BASE WORD	SUFFIX		FULL WORD

		fresh 		ness  		freshness

		fit 		ness    	fitness

		fear 		less   		fearless

	re 	cycle    			recycle
We can form many different words using words from our list as base words. 

	PREFIX		BASE WORD	SUFFIX		FULL WORD

	un		dress				undress

			law		less		lawless

			crust		y		crusty

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